I'd like to add that I no longer feel that way about Hibernation. I forget exactly what that quote of me is from or about, but it is extremely useful on laptop machines. I just don't use it on desktops. There's nothing wrong with the hibernate feature. Most of those things I mentioned in that quote, I don't even do on my own machines. I no longer turn off System Restore either, as it is the only way XP creates entire registry hive backups (without using third party programs such as ERDNT).